Word: graced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Figure-skating, like other sports, is said to build poise and grace, but it is also said to build confidence. When Kelly O'Grady stops being a seven-year-old figure-skating phenomenon, let's hope she takes the confidence she learned on the ice to pursue her own dreams, and to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her long, long life...
...rangy taste: country, rock, power pop. In a sly, dry, sweetly froggy voice that weirdly suggests young Bobby of King of the Hill, Carter draws four-minute portraits of unfulfilled wives (Absence of the Heart), vengeful losers with an urge to arson (Dickson County), abandoned kids whose saving grace is not knowing when to quit (Angels Working Overtime). Twelve songs of hurt without despair are capped by Fred's title song, a hymn to hope despite all. Hope on, folks. In Deana's care, country music's gonna be alright...
...country at any other time in history. The long-ago sexual revolution, gay visibility in the media, the reckonings forced by AIDS--there are any number of reasons for this emergence. It has changed straight America, of course. Just go rent My Best Friend's Wedding, or watch Will & Grace on NBC. What's less noticed is that it has also changed gay America, which is a very different place now than when Shepard was born, or even when he was a teenager. By a complex but not very surprising reciprocal relationship, the simple fact that there are a greater...
...That is the hallmark of Chris--his courage and grace and humor through an incredibly painful situation," said Kristin A. Gross '87, a former Crimson executive...
...handled a terrible illness with unbelievable courage and grace every day of his life," Goss said. "He was, in an age of few heroes; he was my hero...